Pub Crawl NYC wishes you a safe and Happy Thanksgiving.
Happy Wednesday night before Thanksgiving!
Where will you be bar hopping tonight?
A visit to Hair of the Dog on Manhattan's Lower East Side
The folks behind Jake’s Dilemna, Down the Hatch et al are at it again. This time, they’ve set up a location at Orchard & Stanton. If you’ve been to their other locations (and there are many around Manhattan), this one is similar. A sports bar (we counted 20 television monitors during our visit) offering numerous drink specials depending on the day the day of the week, Hair of the Dog is actually in a good location because the Lower East Side really doesn’t have a place like it. There aren’t many sports bars south of Houston and not too many bars period that are open during the daylight hours in this nabe. Like their other locations, Hair of the Dog opens at 11am daily and goes late into the night. If you’re looking for something a little different next time you’re out in the LES, check out Hair of the Dog.
Hurricane relief pub crawl, Saturday, November 17, on Manhattan's Upper East Side
Lindy Promotions is having another NYC bar crawl. This one to benefit the American Red Cross Hurricane relief effort. The pub crawl starts at 1pm on Saturday, November 17. More details here: http://www.lindypromo.com/fliers/UES_F12_WebPoster.jpg
One of the more humerous bar sidewalk sandwich boards we've seen
This was recently seen outside of the bar Mother’s Ruin on Spring Street in Manhattan’s Soho.
The status of some South Street Seaport bars two weeks after Sandy
We took a short walk through the area recently. In short, many of the bars remain closed. Only Jeremy’s Ale House and Meade’s were open for business at the time of our brief tour. Everything else we passed by was not open, including Heartland Brewery, Fresh Salt, Stella, Keg 229, Bin 220, Nelson Blue and the Paris Cafe. If you know a more detailed status of any of these bars, please drop us a comment or email. We hope every single establishment can re-open. We’ve enjoyed all of them on several occasions. Below are a few photos from our tour.
Where to pub crawl this weekend?
After being out of town one weekend and enduring impact of Hurricane Sandy the next, we are eager to get back to bar hopping around the five boroughs! Where to pub crawl this weekend? We still have several new establishments to check out, especially some Lower Manhattan spots, such as Cocktail Bodega in LES and Pouring Ribbons in the East Village. We hope these spots were not adversely impacted by Sandy. It’s also about time to visit Greenpoint/Williamsburg again.
The Union Square Beer Bar Crawl in Manhattan
Note: The following post describes a crawl we did just prior to Hurricane Sandy.
A few good craft beer spots in and very close to Union Square. On a recent Saturday, we visited three of them.
Heartland Brewery (35 Union Square West). Say what you want about this now five-location-chain Manhattan spot. Their beer is still top-notch. We enjoyed the Red Rooster Ale on this occasion. Typically, Heartland serves five year-round beers and another two or three seasonals.
Lillie’s (13 E. 17th Street). The Victorian-themed spot offers nearly 20 tap beers and, on this visit, Lillie’s had a live band playing Irish music.
Wildwood BBQ (225 Park Avenue South). More restaurant than bar, this BBQ spot offers 12 tap beers and another 30 or so bottled ones. The bar appetizers were solid as well (try the Jumbalaya!). Unfortunately, no photos here as our camera had run out of power.
We badly wanted to go to Little Town NYC (118 East 15th Street), but it was too crowded, so we had to end our crawl early.
Getting back to normal
We’re just about back to normal here at Pub Crawl NYC. We understand that there are many out there who still face enormous challenges following Hurricane Sandy. Our thoughts are with them. We hope to return to our regular posting schedule later this week.
We are back on line!
After six days without power, Pub Crawl NYC is back on line. Our sympathies to all those who suffered loss during this difficult time.